About

Croatian Statistical Association (CSA), founded in 2005, is activated at the beginning of 2015, in accordance with the Law on financial business and non-profit organizations in October 2014 (Decision of the City Office for General Administration Zagreb and RNO form with RNO number 00333155). Its goal is to promote the statistical literacy, profession and science, bringing together professionals and enthusiasts in their everyday work with the official statistics and methods of statistical analysis, using and developing them.

Number of the CSA members:At the end of 2015: 30 At the end of 2016: 67 At the end of 2017: 91 In January 2018: 97 (to be completed for 2018)

CSA Presidents:

Period

Name

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2005 – …

Mr. Jakov Gelo, PhD, Croatian Bureau of Statistics Director General & Full Professor in Demography, at the Department of Demography, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb

Year

Conferences organized by CSA

2015

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2016

The First ISCCRO’16 :The 1st International Statistical Conference in Croatia, 05-06 May 2016, Zagreb, Croatia;CONFERENCE TOPIC: „New Challenges of Official and Applied Statistics in European Union. Photo Gallery

The history and the timeline of Croatian Statistical Association:

2005

1.In 2005 – Director General of the Croatian Statistical Bureau, Mr Jakov Gelo, PhD, initiated the founding of the new Croatian Statistical Association -CSA (Hrvatsko statističko društvo – HSD).The Founders that founded the Croatian Statistical Association on 4 February 2005 were, as follows:

Jakov Gelo, PhD (President)

Vlasta Bahovec, PhD (Vice-President)

Milka Berisha

Mila Butigan

Zlatko Grzelj

Željko Jelovečki

Darko Jukić

Ivan Kelebuh, MrSc

Robert Knežević

Mirjana Lipovšćak

Ljiljana Marković – Secretary

Mirela Miščević

Zdenko Milonja

Vlasta Nikolić Mudrinić

Štefanija Novoselac

Marija Šabić

Dubravko Škrlec

Ivan Šutalo

Mira Talan

Petar Jakšić, MrSc

The presentation of the newly founded CSA was given at the 130th anniversary celebration of the CBS held in the Croatian Chamber of Economy.

In 2005 -The first President of the CSA was Mr Jakov Gelo, PhD,Director General of the CBS (and Full Professor in Demography, at the Department of Demography, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb).

2.In the period 2005 – 2015 the CSA was inactive.

2015

3.In 2015 –Director General of the Croatian Statistical Bureau, Mr Marko Krištof, initiated the refreshment of the activities of the CSA, with an imperative to adjust it to the current Law on Non-profits Organizations in Croatia (the law announced in October 2014: Zakon o udrugama, 06.06.2014; NN 074/2014). In February 2015, the CSA had its re-founding meeting.

In 2015 -The secondPresident of the CSA was elected and it has been Mrs Ksenija Dumičić, PhD (Full Professor at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb).

4.In 2015 – The CSA founded and published the first Croatian statistical journal namedCroatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics (CREBSS) with two paper issues per yer.Publisher: Croatian Statistical AssociationPrint ISSN: 1849-8531.CREBSS Editors-in-Chief :Dragan Bagić, Univ. of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept. of Sociology, Zagreb, Croatia; Ksenija Dumičić, Univ. of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Dept. of Statistics, Zagreb, Croatia;Nataša Erjavec, Univ. of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Dept. of Statistics, Zagreb, Croatia.

2016

8.In 2016 – The CSA founded the first statistical conference in Croatia ISCCRO’16, fully named: The 1st International Statistical Conference in Croatia, 05-06 May 2016, Zagreb, Croatia; TOPIC: „New Challenges of Official and Applied Statistics in European Union. It attracted about 120 authors from 11 countries with 55 presentations.

At the ISCCRO’16, the following awards were established:

The ISCCRO ‘16 Best Conference Paper in the Special Session for Challenges of Official Statistics Award(At the ISCCRO-2016 it was awarded to: Petar Sorić, Mirjana Čižmešija, Ivana Lolić for the paper „The challenges of estimating monthly national accounts data in Croatia“

The ISCCRO ’16 Best Special Session for Young Statisticians Paper Award were established, too. (It was not awarded in 2016).

At the ISCCRO’16, two publications were published: (1) the Book of Abstracts included 55 Abstracts, and (2) the CD with Proceedings of the ISCCRO Conference included 34 full scientific papers. The details of the respective publications of the ISCCRO-2016 are:

“Proceedings of the ISCCRO – international statistical conference in Croatia” – (on the CD, Electronic version ISSN 1849-9872) – (with 70% of international Editorial Board members and more than 1/3 of the papers (16 out of 34) were written by the international authors)

9.In 2016 – The CSA first section, named „Club R“, was founded on 23 September 2016 with the first Leader of the section Mr Josip Arnerić, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb.The founders of the “Club R” are: Josip Arnerić- (Leader of the Club R; Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb), Marko Krištof (Croatian Bureau of Statistics), Mirjana Pejić Bach (Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb), Goran Gruić (Croatian National Bank), Lidija Gligorova (Croatian Bureau of Statistics), Anita Harmina (Veleučilište Vern, Zagreb), Ana Aleksandra Janković (SRCE, Zagreb), and Zrinka Marušić (Institut za turizam, Zagreb).

10.In 2016 – The CSA journal (paper version was established in 2015) Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics (CREBSS) appeared as an open access journal published by the Publisher De Gruyter Open:Online ISSN 2459-5616; UDK: 33;519,2; DOI: 10.1515/crebss).Web page:https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/crebssPrint ISSN 1849-8531

The first CREBSS Editors-in-Chief:Dragan Bagić, Univ. of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept. of Sociology, Zagreb, Croatia;Ksenija Dumičić, Univ. of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Dept. of Statistics, Zagreb, Croatia;Nataša Erjavec, Univ. of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Dept. of Statistics, Zagreb, Croatia.

2017

13.In 2017 – the CSA sucssessfully organized The 22nd Young Statisticians Meeting (YSM2017), October 13-15, 2017, Zagreb, Croatia.Details are available at the link: http://vladowiki.fmf.uni-lj.si/doku.php?id=events:ysm17:index/Venue: School of Medicine, „Andrija Stampar“ School of Public Health, University of Zagreb, Address: Rockefellerova 4, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.Co-organizer: School of Medicine, „Andrija Stampar“ School of Public Health, University of Zagreb,Supporter: Croatian Biometric Society; Faculty of Economics and Business, University of ZagrebThere 15 young statisticians, by three from each of the following countries: Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia, being as the Invited Speakers presented their papers in front of the international statistical audience, with the goal to improve their statistical skills. Croatia was represented by three doctoral students: (CSA member) Ivana Lolić from Zagreb, (CSA member) Ivan Papić from Osijek and by Iva Budimir from Split.